How to view all of the JNDI name in jboss7?

[andy215]

In JBOSS5, we can access the jmx-console by ip:port/jmx-console, and we can see the all of the JNDI name by JNDIView.

But in JBOSS7, I just can see several JNDI name on the container/naming page. I want to lookup a MBean by new InitalContext().lookup("jndiName"),  jboss report naming not found. So how can I get all of the JNDI naming on JBOSS JNDI server?

[welle]

I'm not sure I understand what you want. The JNDI viewer in the management console shows you all that is bound in the JNDI (from what I know though).

Why would you use JNDI to lookup a MBean and not the MBean server?

[andy215]

In the JBoss5, if we register a mbean to mbean server, this mbean will be binded with a JNDI name automaticlly. By the preview JBoss versions, we also can lookup MBeanServer by a JNDI name. Add we can lookup all of the mbeans(registered to boss mbean server by ourself) by JNDI name. But for JBoss7, I can't lookup these MBeans.

[welle]

Aha!  The correct way is to use the JMX standard of looking up MBeans (and the getting access to the MBeanServer) and NOT going through JNDI. I guess your client is local (in the JBoss VM) and not remote, or?

[arnoldjohansson]

For AS7 you perform remote access to a JMX MBean with the new jmx-remoting protocol. See code sample here.

Note that you might need to enable the server to accept incoming calls. See comment in code sample for this.

[andy215]

Because by JNDI I can lookup a remote object as a local stub, then I can invoke remote object's method like it's in the local JVM. I don't whether JBoss7 don't register every mbean to JNDI server automaticlly. By for JBoss5, I can do this. And I don't think JBoss7 remove this good feature.

[andy215]

So we only can access the remote mbean by the MBeanconnection, if so, that's really bad. Because in JBoss5, I can get a remote mbean by JNDI lookup, then I can invoke the remote mbean's method like what happens in local JVM. I can't believe JBoss7 removed this feature.

JNDI code(vey simple)

// define remote ip, port and authtication parameters in this hashtable.

Hashtable hashtable;

InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(hashtable);

User user = (User) ctx.lookup("java:/user");

System.out.println(user.getName());

[arnoldjohansson]

Well, if you want/need to make that kind och calls you could make make the MBean a SLSB.